ROODE@BIONET-20.ARPA (David Roode) (03/14/87)
The overhead on this is considerable. Estimate $800-$1200 monthly for a 4800 baud synchronous leased line to the PDN switching node and $200-$900 per month to rent an 8 port PAD for a host connection. I understand Tymnet has a dial-out option which permits access to arbitrary dialup hosts, so perhaps this would be your best bet. Telenet has PC pursuit but carefully limits access to selected US area codes, both for incoming and outgoing dial-modem asynch. connections. -------